[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Singing together in a group is something special. It is a very different experience from singing on your own. But what exactly is it that we get from singing...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Have you noticed how the living dead always have husky laboured breathing?   Photo by theogeo   I’m beginning to worry that zombies ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A friend of mine asked the other day: “How do you find songs? And how do you do vocal arrangements of them?”   Photo by Jorge Fr...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I love my job, I really do. I just need some space and a bunch of people and we will make beautiful music together.   Photo by Heather Jennings &...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Most of the people who come to my singing workshops are in their 50s and pretty much all of them have a story to tell about the time someone told the...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Most choirs charge their singers to be a member (‘subs’). The amount can vary a lot from choir to choir.     What’s ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   We’ve all seen it: a timid, slouched, nervous person approaches the microphone. We expect disaster. They open their mouth and the most amazing, beauti...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I was running a one-day workshop a while back and it seemed to me that the whole thing wasn’t gelling. People seemed uninspired, energy was low, and i...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A few years ago I spent two weeks travelling through the Baltic States: estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. I was really looking forward to hearing plenty of tr...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] I get regular emails from people asking questions about songs and copyright. I’m certainly no expert, but I have written a few articles that you migh...